Ashley Hicklin

Ashley Hicklin was raised in his parents’ pub on the North-East coast of England in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He first began as a singer-songwriter performing at open mic nights in the pub, at the age of 13.

In 2015 Hicklin co-founded Hit My Heart Songs, an independent music publisher & management company based in Edinburgh. They have residential recordings studios where they regularly host songwriting camps.

In 2010, Hickin co-wrote the Belgium entry for the Eurovision Song Contest "Me and My Guitar", sung by Tom Dice. It was a No.1 hit in Belgium and also a top-ten chart hit in many countries across Europe. He also composed the following Eurovision song entries Universo, Run with the Lions, Mother. In 2018, Hicklin wrote two songs for Eurovision: You Decide. 'You' performed by Jaz Ellington and 'Astronaut', which was sung by Liam Tamne.

In 2008, the European CEO of EMI Publishing (Peter Ende) saw a live video of Hicklin performing for BBC Introducing. Hicklin signed a deal with EMI Publishing and in less than six months had co-written several chart hits for other artists across Europe, including Johan Palm's single Emma-lee which reached No. 1 in Sweden.

Ashley Hicklin (born 1985) is a Multi-Platinum English singer, songwriter, and producer. He co-owns Hit-My-Heart-Songs, a UK based music publishing/management company and has written songs for artists such as Tiësto, Hardwell, Lost Kings, Feder, Tom Dice and Waylon, including more than Ten No.1 chart releases and over twenty Top-10 chart releases.